화학공학소재연구정보센터
Polymer, Vol.41, No.24, 8625-8631, 2000
Fragility in side-chain liquid crystalline polymers: the TSDC contribution
In the present work a procedure is proposed to obtain the fragility of a glass from Thermally Stimulated Depolarisation Currents (TSDC) data. From previous TSDC studies on wide series side-chain liquid crystalline polymers, and particularly from a careful thermal sampling analysis of their glass transition relaxation, the fragility parameter was obtained. The proposed fragility scale is based on the concept of deviation from the zero entropy prediction, and is such that zero is the limit of fragility for infinitely strong glasses. The fragility of 10 side chain liquid crystalline polymers is discussed in terms of their molecular structure.